Babysitter A person, often a teenager, who provides temporary, occasional child care services. The term babysitter is usually used to describe someone who provides occasional child care for a few hours at a time. Most families provide the babysitter...

Babysitting is the practice of temporarily caring for a child on behalf of the child's parents. Babysitting is most commonly performed as an odd job by teenagers for extra money, stereotypically, but not necessarily, girls. Babysitting can be quite...